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• So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.

  Francis Bacon

  Government, Empires, Staff

  "De Sapientia Veterum". Book by Francis Bacon. Chapter 6: "Pan, sive Natura", 1609.

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• Music alone with sudden charms can bind The wand'ring sense, and calm the troubled mind.

  William Congreve

  Mind, Calm, Charm

  'Hymn to Harmony'

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• All writers know that on some golden mornings they are touched by the wand; they are on intimate terms with poetry and cosmic truth. I have experienced these moments myself. Their lesson is simple: It's a total illusion. And the danger in the illusion is that you will wait for those moments.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Morning, Simple, Waiting

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• I don't think somebody can just, like, wave a magic wand and make you a star.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Stars, Thinking, Magic

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The government does not have some magic wand that can 'bring down the cost of health care.' It can buy a smaller quantity or lower quality of medical care, as other countries with government-run medical care do.

  Thomas Sowell

  Running, Country, Government

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• Meanwhile someone is shining my head to get it dry to attach my top-hat to my head with toupee tape. I get into microphone and get back up into my dressing room for the rest of my costume. I get snapped into all these things and layers and bundled up. I walk downstairs to the pit. Someone hands me my baton (which lights up like a wand) and I watch the first three minutes of the show. Then I come up out of the pit and there I am.

  Tituss Burgess

  Hands, Light, Shining

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• If I had a wand and could put statues in different places, one of the statues would go to a man who just died, called Norman Borlaug, who came up with the Green Revolution.

  Juan Enriquez

  Men, Different, Green

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Writing is the act of creation. Put words on page. Words to sentences, sentences to paragraphs, paragraphs to 7-book epic fantasy cycles with books so heavy you could choke a hippo. But don't give writing too much power, either. A wizard controls his magic; it doesn't control him. Push aside lofty notions and embrace the workmanlike aesthetic. Hammers above magic wands; nails above eye-of-newt. The magic will return when you're done. The magic is what you did, not what you're doing.

  Chuck Wendig

  Book, Eye, Writing

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• Wine has been to me a firm friend and wise counselor. Often...wine has shown me matters in their true perspective, and has, as though by the touch of a magic wand, reduced great disasters to small inconveniences.

  Duff Cooper

  Wise, Wine, Perspective

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• You can't help some increase from this point. I don't want any viewer to go away think a magic wand exists in Congress. So they're going to see some more bad news. But if we do this, we're doing the right thing.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Magic, Going Away

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". Interview With Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• I'm not going to be able to wave a magic wand and change everybody's thoughts. That's something that can only happen by people working on themselves and being held to account by the rest of us, but what Donald Trump's done really unleashed a lot of darkness and divisiveness.

  Hillary Clinton

  People, Darkness, Magic

  "This Hillary Clinton interview is my favorite of the entire 2016 election". "The Breakfast Club", www.washingtonpost.com. October 26, 2016.

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• Soft fantasy worlds have a much looser cause-and-effect relationship. Alchemists can turn lead into gold and nobody wonders about how it will impact the currency system. Someone waves a wand and turns an elephant into a mouse and nobody worries about conservation of mass.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Elephants, Impact, Worry

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• On the other end of the spectrum, we can't use this permission to sometimes say no and use it as a wand to wish away all our responsibilities. We also must remember not to use our "no" answers as a weapon. We can't turn into No! ninjas, karate-chopping anyone who even comes close to asking us for something.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Responsibility, Wish, Asking

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• The statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible, when it is passing out of criticism, and can no longer be defined by compass and measuring-wand, but demands an active imagination to go with it, and to say what it is in the act of doing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Imagination, Criticism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.102, Courier Corporation

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• The mines of knowledge are often laid bare by the hazel-wand of chance.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Chance, Mines

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• Duty, though set about by thorns, may still be made a staff supporting even while it tortures. Cast it away, and, like the prophet's wand, it changes to a snake.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Snakes, May, Thorns

  Douglas William Jerrold (1851). “St. Giles and St. James”, p.277

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• For Pastrasche was their alpha and omega; their treasury and granary; their store of gold and wand of wealth; their bread-winner and minister; their only friend and comforter. ... Pastrasche was their dog.

  Ouida

  Dog, Gold, Bread

  Ouida (2017). “A Dog of Flanders”, p.4, Open Road Media

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• Music waves eternal wands,--
  Enchantress of the souls of mortals!

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Music, Soul, Wave

  Edmund Clarence Stedman (1869). “The Blameless Prince: And Other Poems”, p.122

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• In the first seat, in robe of various dyes,
  A noble wildness flashing from his eyes,
  Sat Shakespeare: in one hand a wand he bore,
  For mighty wonders fam'd in days of yore:
  The other held a globe, which to his will
  Obedient turn'd, and own'd the master's skill:
  Things of the noblest kind his genius drew,
  And look'd through nature at a single view:
  A loose he gave to his unbounded soul,
  And taught new lands to rise, new seas to roll;
  Call'd into being scenes unknown before,
  And passing nature's bounds, was something more.

  Charles Churchill

  Eye, Views, Hands

  Charles Churchill (1764). “Poems”, p.12

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• Those authors into whose hands nature has placed a magic wand, with which they no sooner touch us than we forget the unhappiness in life, than the darkness leaves our soul, and we are reconciled to existence, should be placed among the benefactors of the human race.

  Denis Diderot

  Race, Hands, Soul

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• What philosopher of the schoolroom, with the mental dowry of four summers, ever questions the power of the wand that opened the dark eyes of the beautiful princess, or subtracts a single inch from the stride of seven leagues?

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Beautiful, Summer, Princess

  Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

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• Poetical taste is the only magician whose wand is not broken. No hand, except its own, can dissolve the fabric of beauty in which it dwells. Genii, unknown to Arabian fable, wait at the portal. Whatever is most precious from the loom or the mine of fancy is poured at its feet. Love, purified by contemplation, visits and cheers it; unseen musicians are heard in the dark; it is Psyche in the palace of Cupid.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Cheer, Dark, Hands

  Robert Aris Willmott (1866). “Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature”, p.92

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• Winter sunshine is a fairy wand touching everything with a strange magic. It is like the smile of a friend in time of sorrow.

  Patience Strong

  Sunshine, Winter, Touching

  Patience Strong (1951). “The Glory of the Garden”

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• When you're an artist, nobody ever tells you or hits you with the magic wand of legitimacy. You have to hit your own head with your own handmade wand. And you feel stupid doing it.

  Amanda Palmer

  Stupid, Artist, Magic

  "The Art of Asking". Book by Amanda Palmer, blog.amandapalmer.net. November 11, 2014.

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• I love the whirling of the dervishes.
  I love the beauty of rare innocence.
  You don't need no crystal ball,
  Don't fall for a magic wand.
  We humans got it all, we perform the miracles.

  Kate Bush

  Fall, Miracle, Magic

  Song: Them Heavy People, Album: The Kick Inside, 1978

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